Gamble paperback tour: Your big chance

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 5:32 PM Share

OK, here's a chance for all of youse who was complaining that I didn't give a talk in your town when I was blimblamming around the country for the release of the hardcover edition of The Gamble. I seem to remember bellyaching from Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta, among other cities. (Frankly when on book tour I tend to avoid towns where the Braves have been based. I mean, it would be a bit like touring Philadelphia, Kansas City and Oakland.)

There's a maximum of eight cities on this tour, which will be in February and March of next year, so northern skiing and southern beach venues are preferred. Plus I am a huge fan of Portland, Oregon. And Moab, Utah. If you want your happening town (or academic institution) to be on the tour, just find a venue willing to pay my way and let my slave-driving publisher know at: ppresspublicity@us.penguingroup.com

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RPM

6:31 PM ET

June 10, 2009

Raleigh or Durham, NC

Three major universities + Fort Bragg just down the road.

Try The Regulator Bookshop in Durham or Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh. Convincing them to pay is on you ;-)

STARBUCK

7:04 PM ET

June 10, 2009

I will second the Research

I will second the Research Triangle Park area. I'm certain that TISS (Triangle Institute for Security Studies)would be interested in you being there as well. You could do a talk at any of the universities or any of the book stores.

I'm an alumnus of both Ft. Bragg and the Triangle-area university system, so I'm kind of biased :)

TOBY BONTHRONE

7:10 PM ET

June 10, 2009

Any chance you'll be visiting London?

And have you done a signing at Lejeune?

TFP_WNC

3:37 AM ET

June 11, 2009

Portland!

Tom,

Please come on back to Portland - maybe I'll be able to get off work this time!

Plus, if you make it out here before mid-September, the weather is awesome.

ZATHRAS

4:41 AM ET

June 11, 2009

What about Madison?

Madison is closer to Ft. McCoy, and the Braves have never been there. Most of the players on the current roster don't even know where it is.

MONEYINABOX

6:34 AM ET

June 11, 2009

Shanghai

Come to Shanghai. We now actually have a few foreign language bookstores and nobody even knows who or what the Braves are!

STEVEN THOMAS SMITH

2:13 PM ET

June 11, 2009

The Team From My Area Is Superior To the Team From Your Area

If you're able to overcome both the Braves thing and the late winter thing, the independent Harvard Book Store has a very good author lecture series. Some may view this as a plus because it's located a block away from the J. Press store.

If you spent your youth skiing with no lifts in Afghanistan, you may wish to visit Tuckerman's Ravine in the Whites. Doesn't look like much from the Wikipedia photos, and I'm sure that nothing beats skiing the Hindu Kush, but it is in fact a very nice area with a steep glacial head wall that builds up to the vertical, with the accompanying ever present danger of avalanches, falling boulders, and other hazards. The area is somewhat controlled, and requires a little bit of planning to visit.

JJH722

1:19 AM ET

June 13, 2009

the braves?

What's your beef with the Braves? Seems to me they're about the only good thing about Atlanta, which is a pile of asphalt and mortar interspersed with housing subdivisions that look tailormade for some financial expert to turn into a AAA rated garbage. And who can forget the atrocious multibillion dollar rap industry? As a temporary ATLien, there's just not much to say in the ATL's defense.

TOM RICKS

9:36 PM ET

June 13, 2009

Actually just a coincidence

Actually I was just struck by the coincidence that the people who complained I didn't book tour to their cities were from Boston, Milwaukee, and Atlanta.

I like the Braves and actually like Atlanta, except for the traffic. I lived in Decatur in the early '80s. Nice town.

NYGDAN

2:52 PM ET

June 16, 2009

New York, NY

Hopefully you are going to include New York City on your tour list! Our campus seems interested in hearing a talk!